The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-25

: Made these measurements in COMPANY
r with Mr.. Gibbs; got on top of the hack an,
d looked through the hole his line of vision
e struck the middle of the left seat
e No questions.
E Mr.. n. R. cARLoss
d corroboratsd the evidence of Mr.. Emerson
and the other gentlemen who made the
: measurements with him 1t was admitted
that all the parties to the measuring would
! corroborate each other.
q A. J. DAVIS,
! stable-keeper-Saw Col. Hamilton on the
night of the killing at Willie Hamilton 5
. store about three-quarters of an hour before
! the shooting left the stable to get cigar
met Hamilton asked him what he was
going to do with stick he held in his
hand. He said he was going to meet gem
tleman at the train, and was going to kill
dog with the stick. Reached to take the
stick from the Colonel, remarking that he
had never seen him with stick before
The Colonel answered that he had picked
1t up at the prison. Made the remark
because he had never seen the Colonel with
stick before. Came in one Sunday night
with Mr.. Chiles on the Vicksburg train
This was Sunday, April24 had not heard of
trouble between Col. Hamilton and Gam
brell saw Hamilton, Bill Figures and he
believes. Albrecht standing in front of the
drug store; spoke to Hamilton don't think
Albrecht had very good feelings toward
Gan.brell, owing to the Prohibition oues-
ton. They were on the walk at nvsv-~,
I.-.s -rore. Iheil manner indicated that
game OF poker was in sight or had been
played. Told this to Mr.. Chiles. Saw the
| red wagon in front of Willie Hamilton's
store before the shooting; think the cur
| talns were down. Have not examined the
| curtains to see whether there are any
bullet holes in them or not. Witness left
to examine the curtains and court took a
recess until O'clock.
| Court reopened at 3 O'Clock D. m
| R. J. NORRIS,
| for the defense, was examined by permis-
| sion of counsel for the State-Is purchasing
agent for the Mississippi Mills; lives in
Beauregard; was in town when Gambrell
was killed wired Mr.. Lehman to meet him
at the train; Lehman missed him by a mis-
understanding, but met him at the Law
renee House; decided to go up town with
him, they got about three houses from the
bridge and heard shooting and retreated
then he saw a yolley as of cross-fire about
eight or nine, rounds; they kept on and
saw man running Marshal Carraway
passed them on the way as they got TO the |
body he heard somebody say Gambrell, and
thought the word was gambler - he saw
two flashes firing at each other; the first
looked to him as if it came from Heaphy's |
shed or in that direction; the two flashes |
firing at each other seemed to be going
direct at each other; the first shot was not |
as loud as the other shots he walked up |
to the bridge slowly noticed one young |
man holding the head of the dead man did |
not know Albrecht or Figures; saw the |
two mems flashes plainly.
By the State-Crossed the bridge, think |
ing he would find a few more dead people, |
Judging from the velley of shots there was
pretty rapid firing as would be made by
soldiers; there were eight or nine shots |
hredi did not make any remark; asked |
Lehman who the man was-the man they |
saw-and they said it was the marshal |
everybody was out at HIS door did not see |
any carriages; his attention was attracted |
10 the bridge; II it was on the bridge he |
could have seen it !; looked right at the |
hrlng; could have seen a carriage twice |
the distance the shooting was from across |
the railing; the flashes were crossing the |
rail, as If one was on the walk and the |
other in the road did not see the bodies |
OF the men; the fire was in the same posi- |
tlon from beginning to end it was just |
exchanging shots all the time the distance |
between the firing was about six feet; the |
Hash of one party was on the bridge and |
the other on the walk; the fash on the |
walk was on the west side of the other |
fash, and on the north walk there were |
two flashes and they looked if they |
were trying to see who was the best shot. |
Re-direct-0nly saw flashes going back |
and forth the flashes were going from
one o the other; the firing was northwest
to the southeast, one to the other and back
again.
Re-direct-Saw shot for shot could not
say that more than two men were shooting
WALTER JONES,
recalled, re-examined - Examined the
bridge; saw something on the south side
of eastern approach, pointed out to be a
finger mark, said to be blood; could not
say that it was or was not blood; found
another spot, which turned out to be paint.
This is on one of the beams.
Cross-examined-Don't know whether
the stain is blood or not !; the stain is dark
er than paint.
j.. PERRIN.
Handed the Colts pistol in evidence
Could not swear that he had seen that pis-
toll but had seen one like it; saw two, one
a Smith & Wesson and the other Colt
saw the Colt in Mr.. Alb recht's parlor
saw it there three times; borrowed pistol
from him, Smith s Wesson. Handled
Albrechts Colt; it was similar to this one,
the pattern of the one in evidence; 1t had
the same action. This was last January a
year ago; saw it there when Mr.. Bailey,
the barkeeper had it; that was about the
same time; came to Albrecbt to borrow a
pistol; he handed out two a Smith & Wes-
son and a Colt; the Smith & Wesson was
unloaded; the Colt had one or two car
tridges in it; borrowed the Smith & wes-
| son and had it loaded up town.
| ss-examined-This was more than a
year ago.
j. C. BROWN
examined-[Tbe Colts pistol was shown.
Knew it; saw it in Mr.. Perrin's hands; he
said he borrowed it from Mr.. Albrecht
| this was year ago; he frequently left il
in his care.
| Cross-examined-Cou not swear that it
| is the identical pistol; the one that ne got
! from Albrecht was exactly similar.
ED FITZGERALD,
| a brother of Charles Fitzgerald-Was at
his brothers residence, $50 yards from the
killing; was conversing with his BROTHER;
heard one loud shot, g cry of murder" or
| oh" or both, or ooh! mother" it was an
agonizing cry. We jumped up and ran to
| the front door. About this time the gener-
al firing began and ended before we got to
the gate. 1t reminded me of the first at
tempt of simultaneous firing by military
company; it sounded like a constant roar.
Don't know enough of pistolsN to pass an
opinion, but did not think the reports
could be made by two pistols. Know III.
Lehman don't remember having seen him
or Mr.. Morris there; ran to the front gate
il is about sixty feet from the steps of the
house to the gate. Mr.. Carraway came up
as he reached the gate; he was coming
rather rapidly. Did not see or hear any
carriage pass over the bridge thought he
would have heard one had one passed.
Cross-examined-Did not see Bill Fig
ures saw Walter Jones and Young Purser;
heard no other shot preceding the first
shot he heard did habitually notice car
riages; have noticed them at night; was
excited at the time; the shot and the cry
murder" was uppermost in his mind.
Re-direct-Am positive that II would
have heard carriage had one passed !;
had gotten on top of the hack and looked
through the hole; his vision struck the
centre of the carriage; pressed the lining
up and his vision struck the edge Of the
left hand seat lMr. Nugent here asked
that the carriage be placed in the hands of
the sheriff. 1t was agreed to place it in a
cell in the jail.
Mr.. J. H. Davis recalled-there are no
bullet holes in the side curtains of the car
riage. Let down both sides.
i. Gross-examined-Did this at the request
of the prosecution. Could not say that he
had ever seen the curtains down; could
not swear positively that they were down
on that night.
Re-direet-The request was made in open
court.
Re-cross-Never saw Col. Hamilton play
cards.
=. d. HULL,
| a witness for the defense. About seven or
eight years ago John Hull was editing a
! newspaper here, and he wrote an article
rejecting on Hamilton aud it looked as if
] hostilities would follow, but the affair was
amicably arranged in an honorable manner.
Spoke with Roderick Gambrell once about
Hamilton this was last July. There was
q controversy between him and Hamilton
He used strong language. Witness told
him that the articles he was writing were
apt to get him into trouble. He said he